patronize
to treat someone with apparent kindness that betrays condescension
Patronize in a sentence
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Stop patronizing me; I understood the instructions perfectly well.
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Critics complained that the documentary's narration was relentlessly blank, hammering home its single thesis so often that viewers felt lectured rather than informed.
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